Remedies (S)

LAW JD 720

The study of law largely involves understanding the substantive scopes of rights and of prohibitions, but, both for the bar examination and for practice, it is essential to understand what the potential solutions are for a wronged person or entity. Remedies is devoted to the latter inquiry. In this course, we will explore the legal powers and limits for righting those who have been wronged and for preventing future wrongs. This seminar includes both public law and private law remedies with a particular focus on social justice and remedial topics that are generally not covered within the 1L curriculum or other required courses. In addition to helping to prepare students for bar examinations (which often test for remedies in civil procedure, contracts, property, and torts), examining remedial principles in this course will be useful to those encountering remedies problems in litigation across substantive fields. This course also covers historically-important and current, hot topics such as reparations, public law injunctions against governmental defendants (so-called "nationwide" or "universal" injunctions), and court-debt related remedies (such as litigation challenging drivers' license suspensions due to nonpayment of fines). NOTE: This class does not satisfy the upper-class writing requirement ** A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.